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category: "Law Enforcement & Legal"
created: 2026-05-01
updated: 2026-05-01
tags:
  - Person
  - PROMIS
  - INSLAW
  - Lawyer
summary: "Harold H. Titus Jr. served as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia following Thomas A. Flannery and, in February 1973, made the decision to upgrade PROMIS to a real-time online system capable of tracking more than 160 variables per case."
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Harold H. Titus Jr. served as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia under President [[Richard Nixon]], succeeding [[Thomas A. Flannery]] in the position. In February 1973, Titus directed the upgrade of the [[PROMIS|Prosecutor's Management Information System]] from its original batch-processing design to a real-time online system capable of handling more than 160 variables per case. This upgrade was funded by the [[LEAA|Law Enforcement Assistance Administration]] and was administered through [[INSLAW]] (then operating as the Institute for Law and Social Research under [[Bill Hamilton]]), establishing the foundation for what became PROMIS II.[^1]

### Footnotes

[^1]: U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary. *The INSLAW Affair: Investigative Report.* House Report 102-857, 102nd Congress, 2nd Session, September 10, 1992.